<p>Usually only 2-4 out of a very very large class.</p>
<p>Ehhh usually at least 15 to cal, another 5 to UCLA, 5-6 to Ivies, 2-3 to Stanford, and another 10 to various top schools (Williams, Chicago, Northwestern, Pomona, etc.) </p>
<p>Out of a class of 400. So like 10% go to top schools, then like 40% go to lower UCs or CSUs, then the last 50% go to CCs. Pretty much everyone at least attempts CC hah.</p>
<p>In our senior class (im c/o '13) of 400 only one student, our val, got into USC, and he’s not even going there. The only other acceptances I can think of were… to Baylor and CalPoly lol…</p>
<p>From what I hear, very little. My high school really isn’t the best in the academic department, sadly.</p>
<p>Er, like all of them? I don’t know, depends on your definition of elite. Dunno, attending Ivies+Stanford was 17% of my graduating class (If I didn’t forget anyone), so if you add in other elite universities and colleges, it covers most people. Yeah, I’m overprivileged.</p>
<p>A pretty good majority of kids in my school go to top tier colleges out of a class of 300. Every year 4-5 kids go to Yale, and this year we have someone going to Harvard and Brown. Our school’s pretty awesome that way.</p>
<p>This year: (Class of 130)</p>
<p>2 MIT.
1 Caltech.
1 Amherst.
1 Williams.
1 Cornell.
2 Columbia.
1 University of Pennsylvania.
1 Brown
2 UC Berkeley.
1 Northwestern</p>
<p>My previous school: (Class of 980)</p>
<p>7 Cornell.
4 Princeton.
1 Stanford.
1 Yale.
3 UC Berkeley.
1 Caltech.
1 Duke.</p>
<p>Class of about 100 people… maybe twenty, if you count Oxbridge, St. Andrews and McGill.</p>
<p>^ St Andrews is NOT an elite college</p>
<p>Oh, I don’t really know anything about it, but I thought it was considered an “elite school”. One girl chose it over Cambridge last year. It’s ranked fourth in the UK, right?
But the IB point requirements are pretty low, I guess.</p>
<p>Most kids at my school don’t apply to elite colleges. I would say that around 4 of us applied to elite colleges this year, with only one of us getting into an elite college. No Ivies whatsoever though. Last year, the best I heard was one person getting into Georgetown, but that’s it.</p>
<p>1 Harvard
1 Cornell
1 Vanderbilt
1 Rice</p>
<p>Yep…</p>
<p>This year, none. I go to moderate sized public school around 30 min outside of Baltimore, Maryland. We have like 370 or something in our class. My school doesn’t really prepare you for Ivy’s and super competitive schools, and the target is pretty much UMD: College Park for almost everybody except like the top 5-10 people in the class. Also, my school has an odd reputation for getting Banneker/Key Scholarships, as in we get 1-2 a year and they are almost always full rides, even though nobody gets into Ivy. I think the last person to get in an Ivy was 4 years ago, and that person was my my sister who got into Princeton. </p>
<p>At my school and for my area though, most people would pass up Ivy’s for a full ride at UMD for something like engineering, because money is a huge concern. We don’t have a lot of rich kids who can fork over full tuition at a private school, and for those we do have, they can’t get into Ivy’s.</p>
<p>St Andrews is ranked between 6th and 10th in the UK, depending on the source. Also, choosing one school over another was more likely down to the particular course than the ‘elitism’ of the school. My mum was going to choose Glasgow over Oxford, but decided if she didn’t like Oxford it would be easier to transfer to Glasgow than the other way round.</p>
<p>Sorry to be so randomly off topic :)</p>
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Seems like it’s ranked 3rd-6th. </p>
<p>While rankings don’t necessarily speak for the “elitism” of the school, I do think they play a part, at least in instilling its reputation. Again, I don’t know much about St. Andrews, but the people getting in from my school have in the past been UChicago/Duke calibre.</p>
<p>This year: 1 Princeton, 1 Yale, 2 Penn, 2 Brown, 1 Columbia, 2 Duke, 2 Williams, 1 Chicago and others such as various UCs, Middlebury, etc…</p>
<p>This year was pretty strong. My grade however will be insane. this 2012 class had around 10% of the class be ivy competitive. My 2014 class is around 25% ivy competitive. We’ll see how it goes in two years.</p>
<p>I think in the 7 years my school has existed one person has gotten into Brown. So that’s our most prestigious. That was like the first year, so it probably wasn’t as competitive as now. Recently, none. My class has a few kids with dreams, but none of us are probably going to get in anywhere.</p>
<p>In my crappy school of 350, we normally have 2-3 kids to Cornell, 1 to another top 30 college, and a bunch of crap. This year, however, we have kids matriculating at Princeton, Duke, 2 at Cornell, Penn, McGill, Amherst, and the US Naval Academy which is amazing for our school.</p>
<p>Last year my school had one girl go to Princeton, and the year before that a girl went to Harvard (it was a <em>HUGE</em> deal for my school; they put her name and a congratulations on the sign in front of the school and everything.) There were no Ivy acceptances this year, at least as far as I know, although one girl is going to the US Air Force Academy. </p>
<p>Most everyone in my school goes to instate publics; usually most of the top 10% go to University of Michigan (this year, 9 out of the top 10 students are going there), then the students a bit below that go to Michigan State, then there’s Central Michigan/Western Michigan/Grand Valley State and finally there’s the local community college. A lot of people go to community college; I don’t know about this year, but I heard that for our class of 2010 (the Harvard year) more than half the students went to CC.</p>
<p>Brown – 3; Princeton – 2; Dartmouth – 1; Cornell – 1; Duke – 1</p>
<p>Out of a class of 500. Top non-magnet in the State.</p>